The Board has remanded the case to the RO for obtaining any pertinent evidence identified by the appellant and readjudicating the issue of an earlier effective date for VA death pension benefits. The appellant will be provided a Supplemental Statement of the Case if the issue remains denied.
The deciding factor: The appeal is about establishing an earlier effective date for VA death pension benefits, which requires obtaining additional evidence from the appellant and readjudicating her claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0629828
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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